Area Law Enforcement
Roughly fifty cars have been smeared with what seems to be blood from a person in the Germany's municipality of Hanau close to Frankfurt, as reported by law enforcement.
Vehicles, building surfaces and postal boxes were defaced, sometimes with swastikas, they reported in a statement.
Officers say they were contacted during the night on Wednesday evening, when a man noticed that a car in the Lamboy area of Hanau had been covered with a reddish fluid.
The liquid had been placed in the shape of a swastika, they reported.
Officers then located many other vandalized cars and residential walls in the adjacent neighborhood.
Swastikas are illegal in Germany under laws prohibiting the public exhibition of symbols from the Nazi era.
Law enforcement state preliminary tests indicate the liquid was likely human blood.
"At present there remains no indication as to where it came from; officials are presently not aware of any physical harm in relation with the event," they added.
Municipal representatives stated they were attempting "to resolve the incident" and have asked to the community for details.
A senior official stated the attack made him without words and had to be solved promptly.
"This act affects the core of Hanau and reopens the pain of the extremist attack half a decade ago," he wrote on social media, mentioning the killing of nine people by a gunman focusing on individuals of immigrant origin in 2020.
